Ian Irvine on writing

Had to share a wonderful couple of websites on writing with you all. Ian Irvine   “A writer’s job is to give his readers pleasure …
through stress, strain and tension.” ~ Sol SteinThe essentials of successful storytelling – for popular fiction, are external conflict, inner conflict, compelling characters and sustained suspense. 
According to Maass, every hero should have “a torturous need, a consuming fear, an aching regret, a visible dream, a passionate longing, an inescapable ambition,...